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"Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone."
"Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you."
"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
"There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain."
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
"LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!"
"I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day."
"We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time."
"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."
"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie."
"The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth."
"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
"He that rises late must trot all day."
"Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time."
"La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality."
"I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time."
"Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape"
"The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'."
